The Basics of Artistic Design
Introduce students to the Elements and Principles of Art and design/graphics concepts (raster vs vector, color theory) through a lecture-style presentation, with an accompanying review worksheet and answer key.
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Introduce students to the Elements and Principles of Art and design/graphics concepts (raster vs vector, color theory) through a lecture-style presentation, with an accompanying review worksheet and answer key.
An ESL reading comprehension and writing-skills worksheet built around an informational passage about the horror genre.
Forrest Gump provides the subject for an English viewing journal with production details, ten new words and meanings, ten character descriptions and a timeline. After recording their observations, students give reasons for a favorite scene and write a review. The closing assignment extends those notes into three diary pages told by a chosen character. Have the film and additional writing paper available.
An ESL/EFL listening-and-writing worksheet built around the TED Talk "Txtng is killing language. JK" (speaker named in the file as John McWhorter); it walks students through identifying the talk, discussing it before and after listening, building vocabulary, and producing written responses.
Post-viewing ESL/EFL movie guide worksheet built around the film "Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water"; gives English-language learners a structured 3-page resource to record the film's credits, learn new vocabulary from it, and respond to it in writing after watching it.
A post-viewing ESL activity worksheet for the Netflix series 'Agatha Christie's Seven Dials', giving students a structured template to record show details, new vocabulary, character notes, and a creative writing response.
A reading passage traces the term "brainrot" from Henry David Thoreau's 1854 use in Walden through its re-emergence as internet slang in the late 2000s to Oxford University Press naming it 2024's Word of the Year, using examples such as the Skibidi Toilet meme and Italian Brainrot. Nineteen comprehension and vocabulary questions follow, asking students to define terms from context, argue two true/false claims using textual evidence, and work out the meanings of words such as "erode," "ephemeral," and "immersed." Two extended writing prompts close the packet: one asks students to argue whether brainrot is a real cultural danger or an exaggerated fear, and the other asks them to explain the concept to a 19th-century audience through a time-travel framing. The passage also references a critic's warning that some meme content can carry extremist symbolism, giving the unit a media-literacy dimension beyond vocabulary practice.
Post-viewing ESL/EFL movie guide worksheet built around the film "The Lorax - Dr. Seuss"; gives English-language learners a structured 3-page resource to record the film's credits, learn new vocabulary from it, and respond to it in writing after watching it.
An ESL/EFL listening-and-writing worksheet built around the TED Talk "What makes a word real" (speaker named in the file as Anne Curzan); it walks students through identifying the talk, discussing it before and after listening, building vocabulary, and producing written responses.
Post-viewing ESL/EFL movie guide worksheet built around the film "Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace"; gives English-language learners a structured 3-page resource to record the film's credits, learn new vocabulary from it, and respond to it in writing after watching it.
ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity Worksheets on "Trolls" This ESL EFL (English Second or Foreign Language) Teaching Resource on "Trolls" (3 PDF Slides; Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity) can be ideal to train Language skills in English. Suitable participants for this ESL EFL TESOL Reading + Writing Activity are Foreign Students at…
An ESL/EFL listening-and-writing worksheet built around the TED Talk "The Poetry of Programming" (speaker named in the file as Linda Liukas); it walks students through identifying the talk, discussing it before and after listening, building vocabulary, and producing written responses.
Post-viewing ESL/EFL movie guide worksheet built around the film "SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants"; gives English-language learners a structured 3-page resource to record the film's credits, learn new vocabulary from it, and respond to it in writing after watching it.
An ESL/EFL listening-and-writing worksheet built around the TED Talk "The Paradox of Choice" (speaker named in the file as Barry Schwartz); it walks students through identifying the talk, discussing it before and after listening, building vocabulary, and producing written responses.
A post-viewing ESL/EFL worksheet built around the film "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows", combining film-info recall, vocabulary logging, character description, and reflective/creative writing tasks.
An ESL/EFL nonfiction reading passage and writing worksheet about the history and global trade of coffee, used to build reading comprehension, vocabulary and personal-opinion/comparative essay-writing skills for teen or adult English learners.
Double entry journal worksheet for close reading and analysis of Act 5, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's Othello, focused on identifying relationships and power dynamics between characters.
ESL Movie Guide Worksheets - The Water Horse - Loch Ness Monster - Scotland This English Second or Foreign Language (ESL EFL TESOL) teaching resource is a 3 page printable PDF movie guide for " The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep" (2007 family film on the Monster of Loch Ness; Scotland) is designed to help English as a Second Language…
An ESL/EFL listening-and-writing worksheet built around the TED Talk "The Transformative Power of Classical Music" (speaker named in the file as Benjamin Zander); it walks students through identifying the talk, discussing it before and after listening, building vocabulary, and producing written responses.
Post-viewing ESL/EFL movie guide worksheet built around the film "Puss in Boots - The Last Wish"; gives English-language learners a structured 3-page resource to record the film's credits, learn new vocabulary from it, and respond to it in writing after watching it.
A nonfiction reading passage and worksheet set that teaches ESL/EFL students about stand-up comedy as an art form, paired with comprehension and essay writing practice.
An ESL/EFL listening-and-writing worksheet built around the TED Talk "What a driverless world could look like" (speaker named in the file as Wanis Kabbaj); it walks students through identifying the talk, discussing it before and after listening, building vocabulary, and producing written responses.
Post-viewing ESL/EFL movie guide worksheet built around the film "Spider-Man - No Way Home"; gives English-language learners a structured 3-page resource to record the film's credits, learn new vocabulary from it, and respond to it in writing after watching it.
An ESL/EFL listening-and-writing worksheet built around the TED Talk "What Your Dog can teach you about aliens" (speaker named in the file as Arik Kershenbaum); it walks students through identifying the talk, discussing it before and after listening, building vocabulary, and producing written responses.